George R.R. Martin Wants to Screen The Interview and Team America: World Police

The author took to his Not a Blog website to offer to screen the controversial movie at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, an independent movie theater he owns in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He even invited Seth Rogen by name. Of course, Martin would need a copy of the movie and permission to screen it first, neither of which appears to be forthcoming.

Martin expressed outrage at distributor Sony Pictures, which he says “wimped out”, as well as the theater chains that pulled the movie, calling the move “a stunning display of corporate cowardice.”

After The Interview was pulled, The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas decided to show Team America: World Police instead, trading one parody of a North Korean leader for another. Martin liked the idea and wanted to do the same at his venue.

Alas, it was not to be. According to Martin, “It sounded like a great idea, so we took immediate steps to do so. Only to learn that Paramount has decided to withdraw Team America: World Police from exhibition. We won't be allowed to show the film, and neither will Alamo, nor any of the other independent venues that wanted to use TA:WP to replace The Interview.”

Said the Song of Ice and Fire creator, “It's a good thing these guys weren't around when Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator. If Kim Jong-Un scares them, Adolf Hitler would have had them sh---ing in their smallclothes.”

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